Air-gun.



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AIB GUN.

APPLIUATIUI FILED JAI. 4. 1808.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

W1' nesses 907m/ jm a UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

lIDWAItl) C. IIOUC'II,y OI1 IIJYMOU'II'I, MICHIGAN, ASSICNOI 'IO DAISY MANUFACTURING (JOIVIIANY, OF PLYMOUTH, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN,

AIR-GUN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Application Illed January 4, 1908. Serial No. 409,332`

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it lrnown that I, EDWARD C. Heilen, :i citizen of the United States of America, residing at Plymouth, in the county of IVayne and State of Michigan, have invented cer'- tain new and useful Improvements in Air- (uns, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention relates to spring air guns formed with the usual true and false barrels arrailged respectively one within and detachable from the other, and it consists primarily in novel means for locking the ari-el sections together; further, in means for holding the true barrel to its seat; and, still further, in certain details of construction as will be hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings illustrating my inventiem-Figure l 1s a vertical longitudinal section through the false 4barrel of an air gun, showing the truc barrel in elevation und the preferable locking and retaining means for the sections; Fig. 2 is a sectional perspective view of the forward end of the gun; Fig. 3 is a similar view of the outerend of the false barrel; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the inner end of the true barrel.

In the drawings thus briefly described, the reference-letter A represents the usual false barrel of an air gun divided by a suitable apertured abutment or partition l into a magazine section C and an air compression chan'irber D.

E represents the true barrel, carrying at its outer end the usual cap F adapted to t within the false barrel, and at its inner end, with preferablyl a disk, or other suitable guide, as li", for ijiositioning the true barrel within the outer or false barrel to register properly with the opening leading to the compression chamber.

i designates the forward sight for the gun carried by and removable with the detachable true b'arrel and having a detaohable locking engagement with the false. 'Ilie sight, as shown, comprises u mitin section a, having a roughenod or milled top to permit of being actuated by the thumb of the operator, a shank seotion b, and a sleeve c loosely engagin the true barrel in proximity to thev cap Il represents yielding'means, prrferably in the form of :n spring coiled upon the true barrel intermediate a suitable abutment (l thereon, and the sleeve section c of the sight.`

To permit of the detachable locking eufagement between the sight and the false barrel, I provide the latter at' its forward end with an openin e leadingoutwa-rdly to the extreme end t rough a slot f which forms the inlet for the sight,and with a tongue g projecting within the opening in the forward portion thereof and in parallelism with the inlet f.

Inl assemblingthe parts, the true barrel is inserted within the false barrel, by a longitudinal sliding movement until pro erly seated at its rear end, when the cap FWill properly close the false barrel and the sight will be in the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3. To lock the parts, the sight moved rearwardly until it clears the projeeting tongue g, then shifted laterally and released, the spring noting automatically to throw the sight forwardly upon the side of the touffue g opposite the inlet.

In addition to automatically effecting the locking engagement between the true barrel and the false barrel, the yielding meansrfurther serves to constantly hold the end of the inner barrel in Contact with the abutment, so as to establish the proper communication between the parts. To removethe inner or true barrel, the operation described is reA versed` the sight being carried with the inner section.

lVhat I claim as my invention is,-

1. In an air gun, the combination with u false barrel, of a true barrel detaehably arranged therein, and a relatively movable forward si ht carried by the true barrel having a detac able interlocking engagement `witi the false barrel in the normal position of the mrts.

I 2. In an air gun, the combination with a false barrel, of a true barrel detaehably arranged therein, and a relatively movable spring-pressed forward sight for the true barrel having a locking engagement with the false barrel.

3. In an air gun, the combination witl` thc false barrel, of a relatively movable torward sight therefor, a detachable true barrel insertible within the false barrel by a longitudinal sliding lmovement, and yielding moans intermediate the sight and true barrel acting to hold the lutter to its seat.

4. In nn air gun, the combination with a lit) falso hzn'rol, of zi i'lulzufhnhle Lrnv` hurl-ol slidY l (i. ln nn nir gun7 ille oonibinntion with :l nhl@ longitudimllhv within tho false barrel, n fnlso barrel, of a true barrel dolnohably n1'- rf-lnlroly mov-aldo forward sight for tho lul ranged lhoron, 'fi forward sight for the tur hurl-ol cui-rind by and rc-.inovahlu with fornifn loose-,ly sleeved on the loller adapted ho 11i-no barrel, und yielding nwzins hotwwn lo loul; said barrels in relation to ouch other, llw sight und trno hznrol, :ind yioldalilo moans; for holding the true ."i. In un air gun, (.ho con'ilnnntion with n barrel to its sont. false linrroLy of the (rnc barrel, n forward 1n teotnnony whereof l nflx my sxgnntnre sight looscly gloovcd u on the true bari-o1 An prvscnoo of two witnessos. und having a detach le locking engage EDVVAHD C. HUGH. ment with the falso barrel, und u spring coiled upon the true barrel intermedlzilo n bearing thereon and the sleeved sight.

Wi( n esscs DON F. SAL-Tono, E. K. BENNETT. 

